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The Bible in the Pew: Congregations and Critical Scholarship from the Pastor’s Perspective

First Baptist Church of Petros, Petros, Tennessee, USA

The Bible is the book of the Church. As such it speaks to a community of faith. Those in the pew who hear the Bible preached and who read the Bible for themselves are deserving of honest, critical and accurate exegesis. Though many Pastors and Academics are under the impression that if the ‘average Christian’ were exposed to critical scholarship they would be offended, this is simply not the case.

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